Welcome aboard and congrats run23!!
So many new REOvillians to congratulate today, lol! Too cool
Your wick... what kind of wick material are you using? Cotton? If so it is almost universal for new cotton users to use too much, which will mute flavor and make it really easy to burn your wick. If you could post a pic of your RM2 with the cap off we'd be happy to "critique" it for you, politely of course
I get anywhere from 3 to 10 drags from mine between squonks, depending on how aggressively I squonked and the length of the drags I'm taking.